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Microwave (cont’d): Microwave, as the name suggests use microwaves.  These microwaves are a form of electromagnetic field (EMF) generated by a magnetron, vibrate at a speed of 2.5 billion times per second and causes water molecules in the food to resonate at a very high frequencies and generate heat which heats or cooks up the food.  Microwave cooking begins in the cells and molecules where water is present.  This energy is transferred into frictional heat and are called thermic effect, added to this are athermic effects which are not measurable but are thought to deform the structures of molecules and thus have qualitative consequences.

Microwave ovens have to meet the safety standards set by the FDA and who do you think provides the information of these safety standards, no one knows, but FDA or any agency who approves the use based on various criteria have to depend on the manufacturers who has to give in writing that it is not harmful and dangerous to the public at large and this is the basis on which such invention even if it is dangerous to the health of the common public are brought into the market, based on the undertaking from the manufacturer, these dangerous inventions are brought into the market for public use.  Once the Microwave is purchased by you, does any of the FDA personnel or the authorizing agency come to your house to check periodically whether there is a radiation leak in the microwave in excess, no one comes to check but it is proved that radiation leak does happen, even the within limit leak is harmful to your health.  The standard also limits the amount of microwaves that can leak from an oven throughout its lifetime of microwave radiation per square centimeter, do you think the microwave maintains this standard, this is food for thought for all of you who are using microwave.  Tests have proved with EMF meter that even brand new microwave emits significant levels of microwave energy otherwise known as radio frequency radiation.  What this means is that when you switch your microwave on these EMFs permeate into your home, traveling through walls, ceiling and you.  In 2011, WHO classified this type of EMF exposure as a class 2B possible carcinogen.

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Life style changes is first to change and then others to cure even CANCER

Microwave (cont’d): Many of you would be wondering if this microwave is so harmful there should be some proof and many would refute this saying that there is no proof of it and of course, if microwave were really harmful, our government would never allow them in the market, would they?  Regardless of what the official verdict is we need to stop using microwave if are down with auto immune disease or even cancers as there are research to prove the carcinogen effect of food microwaved.  You and your family need to know that the government or in that case even the industries are not to take care of your health, the manufacturers of microwave are only interested in the profit from the sale and whatever thereafter the use of microwave is none of their concern and all the approvals and rules are formulated so well that nobody can take any action against the government that approves it nor the manufacturers that manufactures it.

Millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their own health and their family health for the convenience of microwave as they can cook meals in seconds, defrost and ready to eat in a matter of minutes.  In developed nations, more than 95% of homes have microwave used for meal preparation because of energy efficient also, as compared to conventional ovens.  In general, people believe, that whatever a microwave oven does to foods cooked in it doesn’t have any negative effect on either the food or them.  Many will straight away reject this as absurd because where would you be without your microwave, it’s as if without microwave, your life will come to a standstill or will move at a snail pace.

Yes, out there, there are few restaurants or homes that are still without microwave and these are the people who are really educated with knowledge of the dark side of microwave for themselves as well as their families.

You need to know that out there just by removing this microwave from your kitchen does not ensure that you eat a healthy and nutritional diet because in modern world everything that you eat from the morning you wake up to the dusk, you are consuming something or the other through your food and through your nose and skin from the environment but knowing what is good for you and looking for alternative to that will reduce the symptoms of your auto immune disease or even cancer.

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Life style changes is first to change and then others to cure even CANCER

Microwave: In current fast paced modern world, we want everything to be done fast, we do not have the time or do not get time to wait for something as cooking to take time, and hence people with imagination invent new things to make our life easier and such invention as microwave has being added to our life to make our life easier and is simple, convenient options for all the people on the go.  For the past few decades, the microwave has been a mainstay in most developed nation, virtually transforming society and changing the way we view food but despite its wonders have you ever realized that some of the things that are invented for the benefit of people, can prove to be a major health risk and using microwave continuously day in and day out is very harmful to the people who are the nearest to microwave.  You need to be aware that though the heating gets very fast in microwave, microwave is not the healthiest cooking option and microwave cooking also ensures that the nutrients are also destroyed during the cooking process.  Out there, there are better options available that will ensure that nutrients remain in your food but people do not want to go for other options.  It is a common knowledge that if you stand too close to a microwave, the body absorbs second hand radiation that the microwave releases and increase the risks of various auto immune disease and cancers and you will find that people are even blatantly opening the door of the microwave even when the cooking or heating process is going on and remove the food, this also is very very harmful to the human body.  Remember that you do not get auto immune disease or even cancer within 1 day or 2 day of exposing to such harmful radiation or in that case any other cancer causing substance, it is continuous usage that finally ends in you contracting a disease or even cancer, yes, most of you out there with some health issue or the other or even cancer would understand it better because you are going through such a state from which you want relief so that you can carry on your day to day work without any issue.  So as far as possible avoid using microwave, this is one of the tips to ensure that the nutrients remain in the food at the same time ensure that your body is not attacked by the radiation day in and day out.

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Life style changes is first to change and then others to cure even CANCER

Soak in vitamin D(cont’d) – If you are in a region where you are not able to soak in the morning sunlight then vitamin D is also found in many foods, including fortified milk, cod liver oil, salmon, tuna, mackerel, cheese also contains small amounts of vitamin D, also small amounts are found in beef liver and egg yolks.  The major role of vitamin D is to maintain normal blood levels calcium and phosphorus.  Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, which forms and maintains strong bone.  It is used alone or together with calcium to improve bone health and decrease fractures.  Vitamin D may also protect against osteoporosis (a condition that causes bones to become weak and brittle) in adults, high blood pressure, other diseases and even cancer.  A severe deficiency can also lead to rickets (a condition that causes softening and weakening of the bones) in kids.  Vitamin D enables calcium absorption in the gut and maintain blood calcium levels to enable normal mineralization of bone and prevent abnormally low blood calcium levels that can then lead to Tetany - a condition that is due to usually low blood calcium (hypokalemia) and is characterized by cramps, spasm of the voice box (larynx), spasms of the hands and feet, cramps, and overactive neurological reflexes.  Tetany is generally considered to result from very low calcium levels in the blood so the thing to remember is that if you are getting no or less sunlight and the above symptoms then immediately go to the doctor and get it diagnosed and follow instructions by the conventional doctor.

You need to know that vitamin D insufficiency leads to secondary hyperparathyroidism(overly active parathyroid glands) that cause increase bone loss, osteopenia and increased fracture risk is there if you are deficient in vitamin D.  The main cause of fracture observed after fall by elderly is due to deficiency in calcium.  A severe vitamin D deficiency can cause myopathy, which can cause muscle weakness and pain.  Vitamin D deficiency has also been seen in knee and hip pain.   Research has shown that vitamin D has a protective effect in development of other cancers, including breast, colon and prostate cancers.

Some research suggested that vitamin D deficiency might be linked to diabetes, asthma, Alzheimer’s depression and certain autoimmune diseases so you can see for yourself what deficiency in vitamin D can do to your health, these are but some issues that you will face due to deficiency in vitamin D there might be 10s of other disease that can happen due to deficiency is vitamin D.

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Life style changes is first to change and then others to cure even CANCER

Okay, so now your body has started to show you symptoms in the form of numbness, tingling sensation, blurred or double vision, weakness in the arms or legs and you go to a doctor who diagnosed it to stroke and prescribe medicine for that and asks you to do exercise and so on.  You need to know that doctors are also human being, wrong diagnoses can be made so it is in your interest to double check with another doctor and reconfirm the 1^st diagnosis because many a time wrong diagnosis are done and months pass by before the patient again go back to the doctor with the same symptoms continuing and then being diagnosed again and then the correct conventional medicine being prescribed.  But you need to remember that you have been taking wrong medicine for the wrong illness so where does that leave you, it’s not that nothing has happened, yes the medicine that you were taking wrongly would have done some more harm to your body and now the body has to take care of your initial cause as well as other issues that is created due to the wrong diagnosis and wrong medicine but like I said human body is very complicated and at the same time more advanced than any technology invented in our world and that is the main reason why research after research are being modified and what research discovery was brought out in public notice 10 years back is not what will be brought out 10 years going forward, the research discovery will attribute more different causes to a disease than was stated 10 years back.

So if you are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, the first thing that you need to do is lifestyle changes as below:

Soak in vitamin D – When you are diagnosed with any auto immune disease check out your vitamin and minerals levels, at least in this case Vitamin D, in most of the disease you will find that your Vitamin D deficiency has been observed in most Multiple Sclerosis cases.  So you will need to soak in first ray of morning sunlight in order for your body to make Vitamin D, so go and sit in sunlight in the early morning when the sun has just come out and not in the afternoon since afternoon sunlight contains UB radiation which is harmful to your body and can cause skin cancer

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Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – Is Multiple Sclerosis curable? - Healthy and balanced nutritional diet - 3

Yes, Multiple Sclerosis is curable and don’t expect the conventional doctors to cure you of Multiple Sclerosis, yes, like I said first you need to remove everything that is chemical laden from your food, in fact everything that you eat in today’s modern world contains some chemicals even though it is in minute quantity that is foreign to your body and dangerous in the long run even though it might have been approved by the FDA or in that case any governing body of any country.  You can beat the system to its own game by doing what is good for your body and for your family because out there nobody is bothered whether you will make it to see another day or not as long as their cash box are churning in money for them through various chemical laden food/medicine/conventional treatment but if you are serious and there is a will and determination, you can cure Multiple Sclerosis or any other disease or even cancer, don’t go looking for curing the symptoms, if you are going out there looking for curing the symptoms you are doing a great injustice to body and at the same to passing on wrong information to others who believe what they see and hear.  Yes, cure is in your hands and you need to have the will and determination to get cured.  So healthy and nutritional diet is the start of it but you will need the help of alternative treatment, at some time or other.  Also, you need not stop the conventional medicine immediately, you need to slowly wane away from the conventional under advice from your alternative medicine doctor.  Note: Under no circumstances should you stop conventional medicine immediately.  So now itself if you really want to get well, follow eating healthy and nutritional diet irrespective of your knowledge as to its content, preferably go for organic, otherwise just ignore this page and go looking for temporary solutions of alleviating the symptoms of the disease.

Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – Is Multiple Sclerosis curable? - Healthy and balanced nutritional diet - 2

Continuing from yesterday.  It is not possible to eat 100% organic whatever you say that you are eating home cooked healthy and nutritional diet, yes it helps in alleviating the symptoms but at the same time it will take a long time and before that everyone gets frustrated and already starts thinking that going healthy and organic doesn’t do any good in even giving relief from the symptoms but like I have been repeatedly saying in previous episodes, when the symptoms or disease has taken so many months and years and when you are given the diagnosis by the doctor you want it to be relieved immediate, it does not work that way, reversal of the symptoms and disease also takes same period sometimes less time sometimes more time depending on many factors. 

So if you are having home cooked, healthy and nutritional diet, you need to take care to ensure that you are really eating healthy and nutritionally good diet.  If you are a person who like Oats and assume it to be healthy, think again.  Quakar Oats was once sued over “glyphosate” found in its all natural oats.  Though Quaker Oats admits that it did not add glyphosate during any part of the milling process but that it might be applied by farmers to certain grains before harvest.  So it came out that glyphosate are routinely sprayed by farmers on non-GMO crops also.  Oats are not a genetically engineered crop but glyphosate was increasingly being used as a desiccant to dry out crops to speed.  So you see here, what you have been eating years and years contain glyphosate and what is glyphosate.  Glyphosate is herbicide and that too a toxic herbicide used to kill weeds.  Now what happens when you intake glyphosate along with Oats continuously, first your body’s immune system will attack it thinking it as a foreign invader and the attack goes on till it is removed from body but when you continuously eat it along with Oats, a time comes when your body’s immune system fails and this is how you fall ill and starts contracting auto immune disease due to various chemical reaction to it and other invaders at the same time.

So you see even the first thing that you are eating in the morning might be unhealthy to your body.

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Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – Is Multiple Sclerosis curable? - Healthy and balanced nutritional diet - 1

For all those of you who say they are eating home cooked healthy and balanced nutritional diet, you are correct but are you eating home cooked food devoid of any chemicals that is one of the important question that you need to ask yourself.  I agree that you must be eating home cooked food but if you are only eating what the state dictates, how it is produced, ways it is produced and what the big industries manufacture, who care a less whether anybody eating what are manufactured by them get sick or not as long as there is profit in it for them.  Living in urban life or rural, you can never say that you are eating 100% healthy food in spite of you having your own back yard where you know what produce you are growing and eating only that which is produced in your back yard, then also I would say that you are not 100% into healthy eating and balanced nutritional diet.  Like I said it is not 100% possible to avoid something or the other that is harmful to your body, but that is acceptable, if you can junk at least 90% of those junk food that you are knowingly or unknowingly then you are on your way to healthy lifestyle which helps immensely in body healing providing the balance 10% does not constitute major disease causing chemicals.  You are required to purchase some products or the other from the market, that is the product which has some chemical or the other, or preservatives or coloring which is harmful like the toothpaste, make up, perfume, air freshener and even the morning breakfast starts with some thing or the other which is not healthy for your body like sometimes even the corn flax that you eat in the morning with milk contains corn plus chemicals that are not good for your health but is required by the manufacturers to preserve/and or influence the taste buds, the milk that you drink in the morning, purportedly claim to be good for your health but when it says on the label that it is pasteurized it means that the milk is heated up to 161.6 degree Fahrenheit for 15 seconds known as HTST or flash pasteurization to keep milk fresh for two to three weeks or the UHT process which increases shelf life to up to nine months so from this you can know what you are having, it kills some bacteria and inactivates certain enzymes and reduce certain vitamins like Vitamins so you see what you are having.

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Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – Is Multiple Sclerosis curable? - Healthy and balanced nutritional diet

Healthy and balanced nutritional diet is the first change that needs to be done by any person who is down with auto immune disease or any disease for that matter or even cancer and this is the first change that people is not able to bring about due to various reasons, some reasons may be so silly others may be reasonable but all the same if you want to reverse the illness, one needs to go on a healthy and balanced nutritional diet.  The reason why people are not able to make the first change is that they have formed a habit over months and years any it will be very difficult to reverse this habit of eating but it will have to be done.  Some do go for it by after a week or so they cannot keep up with it.

Now if you go to face book and other sites, you read that many a people who are down with illness and who have taken a cue from various sites that eating healthy and balanced nutritional diet will bring about some change in their illness have experimented with it and many have positive feed backs but more number of them from various countries have negative feed backs even after having healthy and balanced nutritional diet, that eating healthy and balanced nutritional diet has not made any difference in alleviating their symptoms from a particular disease and wouldn’t want to hear anything about going on a healthy and balanced nutritional diet.

Those of you who are eating a healthy and balanced nutritional diet and still not able to feel any change in symptoms should know that like I told nutritional diet is the first change that needs to be done, but for some disease, diet alone will not help in relief of the symptoms but for some diet will help out with alleviating the symptoms since the cause of a particular disease is not one by due to many causes.

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Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – Is Multiple Sclerosis curable?

Is Multiple Sclerosis curable? Now this is a question that will come to the mind of any sufferers who are down with any degenerative or autoimmune disease including MS sufferers at some point of the time or other.  It is possible to cure MS?  No, it is not possible to cure MS by the conventional methods even by avoiding junk food or even eating home cooked food.  Yes, MS is curable if you have the will, determination and think it is curable and is willing to put some efforts into curing yourself at whatever the cost, whatever years it may take, have an attitude of positive thinking and most important not accepting it as fate and bear with the symptomatic sufferings day in and day out.  If you are one of the above then only MS is curable, otherwise I am sorry to say, you need to continue with conventional medicine and try to relive your symptoms and finally end up with some other health problems and so on with a never ending process.

Nowadays there seems to be general agreement/consensus seeping into the minds of many a people that achieving and keeping overall level of good health is very important for people living with multiple sclerosis, or with any chronic degenerative disease or for that matter even cancer.  On way to achieve that goal, many will say, is to start eating a health, well balanced nutritional diet.

All said and done, I have come across many people saying that they have gone on a healthy, well balanced nutritional home diet which they say they have been making at home so they presume it to be well balanced and nobody can say they did not go on a healthy well balanced nutritional home diet but still no improvement or alleviation of symptoms and most of the people do not want to talk about going on health and well balanced nutritional food, which they say they find no improvement in their condition and get angry at those people even suggesting to go roe healthy, well balanced diet.  Now this is the case with almost all the degenerative disease, I am sorry to say that most people out there get it wrong in presuming that healthy, well balanced nutritional home diet does not do anything to alleviate the symptoms.  By eating a healthy, well balanced nutrition home food might not do anything by itself but it helps your body to reverse the damage done.

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Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – What causes Multiple Sclerosis?

What causes Multiple Sclerosis(MS): The cause of many a auto immune disease is a mystery in modern times and even studies comes up with various variations to the causes even after decades of studies but we can confidently say that MS is not due to one cause due to multiple causes that come together and cause Multiple Sclerosis.  Studies have also found that some people get MS after they have had a viral infection like the Epstein-Barr virus or human herpes virus which makes their immune system stop work normally.  The infection may trigger the disease or cause relapses.  Though scientists have been studying what causes MS, they do not have a clear answer but one thing is clear that one of the causes of MS is due to inflammation, but what causes inflammation is still unknown and this is the case with all the auto immune diseases.  Like said when the immune system goes rogue, they start attacking the body parts unknowingly or unable to make out whether that is foreign parts or own body parts and when it starts then there is no stopping until it gets cleared to immune system that it is a body part. 

Medical science has even come to the conclusion that one of the cause MS could be due to low level of Vitamin D and low level of Vitamin D have been found to be more common in countries further away from the equator where sunlight is less but that might be one of the cause because there will be less Vitamin D produced by the body due to not having sufficient sunlight but like said there will be combination of causes for MS.  Studies have also found out that MS is not directly inherited from parent to child, there is no single gene that causes it.  Over 100 genes might affect your chances of getting MS.  Studies have also come to a conclusion that one of the cause of MS could be your lifestyle and that one factor should not be ignored and the main ingredients that make up MS could be in your day to day food or environment, the daily environment that you assume could do you no harm like the harmless air freshener in office, house, or car.

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Can a person be cured of Multiple Sclerosis – What is Multiple Sclerosis?

What is Multiple Sclerosis(MS): The word sclerosis comes from a Greek word for scarring or hardening.  MS is a disease that can affect your brain, spinal cord and the optic nerves in your eyes.  Some people have mild symptoms while others have severe.  MS happens when your immune system attacks a fatty material called myelin, which is a coating around nerve fiber, which wraps around your nerve fibers to protect them.  Without this outer shell, your nerves become damaged, Scar tissue will form and those scars can act like stones on the road, creating a bumpy ride for signals that pass as they travel between the brain and body.  When those signals get slowed down or blocked, people with MS feels one or more symptoms.  This damage means that your brain cannot send signals through the body correctly and there is a cut off of connectivity between different parts of the body, like the flickering of the bulb in the house.  Your nerves also don’t work as they should to help you move and feel.  With MS, you may have symptoms like feeling tired, problem with balance, muscle control, vision, bladder issues, muscle weakness or spasms, numbness and tingling, pain, sexual problems, depression, diminished brain functions, cognitive problem focusing or remembering, dizziness and many other symptoms that affect your basic body functions.  Most people with MS have attacks also called relapses when the condition gets worse.  They are followed by recovery during which time symptoms improve, for many the disease continues to get worse over time.  Once diagnosed, MS stays with you for life.  Like with all auto immune disease modern medicine can only help you manage the conditions and its symptoms.  Studies have discovered that more women than men have this disease.

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If you realize that cure of any disease is within your reach, you are on your way to cure yourself - 1

In continuation from morning episode.

All of us require quick fixes or cures to our diseases but you need to realize that what that has taken months and years to progress so far, may have done some irreversible damage which modern medicine will never be able to reverse it but possible with alternative medicines.  I would say nobody has quick fixes to your health situations which has been brought by either by yourself or through your gene or unknowingly consuming presumed harmless food approved by various regulating authorities of various states and governments.  In spite of have all the wealth that one may have, it will be possible to alleviate the symptoms but as with modern medicine there is always side effects associated with any medicine which will not be known to anyone and even if other health issues do come up, it would be very difficult to attribute it to side effects of a modern day medicine.  If you are looking for short term solution for fixing symptoms or looking for quick fixes to health problems that has been the ultimate result of your abusing your body knowingly or unknowingly in many ways, be it unhealthy food, alcohol, repressed anger, stress, FDA approved food items, GMO approved fruits, vegetables and seeds, etc.

At this stage I can well say that nowadays majority of sick people with auto immune disease have all lost hope to be cured and hence if you notice majority are looking at only getting relief from symptoms so they can do their day to day work within any hindrance which should not be the case but under the circumstances when you believe that there is no cure, there is no option but you are the your own fate decider.  All of you who are out there looking for even symptoms relief without side effects and even cure for illness need to know that it is not going to be easy, it is going to be very tough but I can assure you once you have found the benefits of abstaining from all that that is the cause, you will find that your health is getting better and better that too without any side effect but let me tell you this will also require the intervention of a good complimentary/alternative medicine (as modern medicine would like to call it though I believe that modern medical should be complimentary/alternative medicine) practitioners’ in alternative medicine, it can be anyone like chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists, aromatherapy, ayurveda, traditional chinese medicine and 100s of other alternatives but getting hold of those 5% of the 100 out of this would be a challenge for anybody and it is that 5% of the doctors whom you would wish to be under and if you are lucky to be under those 5% of alternative doctors, you can expect your symptoms to be cured not immediately, but will take months or years to reversal if diet and prescription are followed but like I said out there, there are only 5% who will be able to cure symptoms and reverse auto immune disease and even cancers cures are there in many parts of the world.

If you realize that cure of any disease is within your reach, you are on your way to cure yourself

As informed you in my various previous episodes, if you realize that cure of any disease is within your reach and you can cure yours, then only thing left is to make that thought happen and I say it is possible. 

We have been trained through visual messages through TV and newspapers since childhood that there is no cure for autoimmune diseases and that there is no cure for cancers and that research is going on for such and such matters and so on but now you need to realize that if you go on reading and hearing such subliminal messages day in and day out, your subconscious mind is going to accept it at face value and literally make it happen for you.  Moreover, apart from subliminal messages when you go on to face book or other sites for health matters, others who are on the board also keep on mentoring that there is no relief from the medicine, even alternative medicine sucks and no cure at all, a time comes when your subconscious mind starts to believe what is not true just because your conscious mind did not accept it because of these subliminal messages.  So my saying that it is up to you whether you want to cure any incurable disease or not.  Many a people have cured themselves of so many disease but let me tell you it is not an easy task, you may have to spend a lot of money, you may have to focus on your cure, you may have to abstain from most delicious food and finally you may have to sacrifice a lot before you can gain back your health.

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Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life – 5

Asthma - Asthma is a long-term, inflammatory lung disease that causes airways to tighten and narrow when a person with such inflammatory condition comes into contact with irritants such as dust, cigarette smoke, or chemicals.  Asthma can be life threatening too in some cases.

Bronchitis - Although bronchitis doesn't affect most teens, it can affect those who smoke continuously.  In bronchitis, normally the membranes lining the larger bronchial tubes become inflamed and an excessive amount of mucus is produced, so if an excess amount of mucus is produced, it is indicative but should be confirmed with a lab test.  The person with bronchitis develops a bad cough to get rid of the mucus but this is not in all the cases.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) - is an inherited disease affecting the lungs.  Cystic fibrosis causes the mucus in the body to be abnormally thick and sticky.  This mucus that is thick and sticky can clog the passage airways in the lungs and make the affected person more likely to get bacterial infections.

Pneumonia - Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs, which usually occurs because of infection by a bacteria or virus.  Pneumonia will cause fever, inflammation of lung tissue, and makes breathing difficult because the lungs have to work harder to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream and remove carbon dioxide from the blood, it will be strenuous task for your body to perform when you have pneumonia.  Common causes of pneumonia are influenza and infection with the bacterium Streptococcus Pneumoniae.

Although some of these respiratory diseases like asthma or cystic fibrosis can't be prevented, but you can prevent many of the chronic lung and respiratory illnesses by avoiding to smoke, staying away from pollutants and irritants, washing your hands often to avoid infection, and getting regular medical checkups.

Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life – 4

As you know how the hemoglobin picks up the oxygen.  Now in the tiny capillaries of the body tissues, oxygen is freed from the hemoglobin and this oxygen moves into the cells.  Carbon dioxide which is thus produced during the process of diffusion moves out of these cells into the capillaries where most of it is dissolved in the plasma of the blood and the blood that is rich in carbon dioxide then returns to the heart via the veins.  From the heart, the blood is pumped to the lungs where carbon dioxide passes into the alveoli to be exhaled.

Many factors – including genetics, pollutants and irritants, and infectious disease – can affect the health of your lungs and respiratory system and cause respiratory problems.  Problems of the respiratory system that can affect people include:

Common cold. Colds are caused by over 200 different viruses that cause inflammation in the upper respiratory tract. One of the most common respiratory infections that are easy to infect a human body is the common cold. Symptoms of common cold may include a mild fever, cough, headache, runny nose, sneezing, and sore throat among other symptoms.

Cough. A cough is a symptom of an illness, not an illness itself, an advice information to human being that something is wrong. There are many different types of cough and many different causes to it, ranging from not-so-serious to life threatening. Some of the more common causes affecting kids and teens are the common cold, asthma, sinusitis, seasonal allergies, and pneumonia.

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Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life – 3

You know that sneezing is the body’s way of getting rid of something that’s irritating the nose.  With coordinated precision the irritant is sneezed out. 

The two openings of the airway that is the nasal cavity and the mouth meet at the pharynx or throat at the back of the nose and mouth.  The pharynx which is a part of the digestive system as well as the respiratory system carries both food and air.  At the bottom of the pharynx, there is a pathway for both food and air and this divides in two and go a separate way.  One passageway is for food, through the esophagus which leads to the stomach and the other for air, through the epiglottis, a small flap of tissue that covers the air only passage when we swallow, keeping all the foods and liquid from going into our lungs.  That’s why since ancient times, knowledge is passed on that while eating complete what you are chewing or eating and then talk, now you know there is a reason for that, it’s because when you are eating and talking food can accidently go into the lungs and cause choking and then an emergency situation.

The voice box or larynx is the uppermost part of the air only passage and this short tube also contains a pair of vocal cords which vibrate to make sounds.  The trachea or windpipe extends downward from the base of the larynx and it lies partly in the neck and partly in the chest cavity.  The walls of the trachea are strengthened by stiff rings of cartilage to keep it open so that air that you inhale can flow through on its way to the lungs.  This trachea is also continuously lined with cilia, and it does the job of sweeping fluids and foreign particles out of the airway so that they stay out of the lungs and not cause harm to the body.  At the bottom end, the trachea divides into left and right air tubes called bronchi, which connect to the lungs.  Within the lungs, you will find that the bronchi branches out into smaller bronchi and even smaller tubes called bronchioles, which are as thin as a strand of hair, end in tiny air sacs called alveoli.  Every one of us has hundreds of millions of alveoli in our lungs — enough that will cover a tennis court if they were spread out on the ground. The alveoli is the place where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place.  With each inhalation, air fills a large portion of the millions of alveoli and in a process called diffusion, oxygen moves from the alveoli to the blood through the capillaries, which are tiny blood vessels that line the alveolar walls.  Once in the bloodstream, a molecule called hemoglobin picks up the oxygen in the red blood cells.  This oxygen-rich blood then flows back to the heart, which pumps it through the arteries to all the oxygen-hungry tissues throughout the body.  So if your hemoglobin is less, you will feel fatigued, and even lose consciousness if it goes beyond a below limit, but most of the time, your body will convey to you through some way so that you can remedy the situation of low hemoglobin and will need to consult with your doctor.

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Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life – 2

As you know breathing couldn’t happen without the help from the respiratory system, including the nose, throat, voice box, windpipe and lungs.  With each breath you take in air through your nostrils and mouth, with your lungs filling up and emptying out as air is inhaled, the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth warms and humidify the air.  Normally in today’s modern environment, with cities and towns so polluted, your respiratory system have a mammoth task of filtering out foreign matters and organisms that enter through the nose and mouth.  Pollutants that are breathed or coughed out or destroyed by the digestive juices or eaten by the macrophages, a type of blood cell that patrols the body looking for germs to destroy when they are encountered inside the body.

Tiny hairs called cilia in the trachea is an important protective mechanism of the body and protect the nasal passageways and other parts of the respiratory tract by preventing them from becoming lodged in the lungs, and their job is to filter out dust and other particles that enter the nose with the breathed air.  As the air is inhaled, the cilia job is to move back and forth, pushing any foreign matter like dust away from the lungs with a coordinated sweeping action towards the nostrils where it is blown out or towards the pharynx where it travels through the digestive system and out with the rest of the body’s waste.  If the cilia fails in its duty to function, foreign bodies starts to grow bacteria that remain in the airway.  Bacteria built up in the trachea cause breathing problems, infections and other disorders.

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Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life – 1

The definition of food is food is anything that your body takes in to maintain life and growth.  So strictly speaking oxygen is food.  It’s the fuel that burns the fat, source of all energy, the ignition key that makes sure that everything that body requires get done.  As oxygen is important to every cell in your body, without it, your cells can’t make energy and even a drop in oxygen requirement is one of the reason your body gets into imbalances state when the cells are deprived of oxygen, this deprivation if not corrected in time, causes illness because your cells metabolism slows down.  You switch from a highly efficient energy making machine to being less efficient and thus generate a lot of lactic acid, which builds up in your muscles and make you sore.  Without oxygen, we perform less efficiently.

Our body process requires three things to start with, food, water and oxygen.  While we might enjoy the food when hungry and water when thirsty, it’s the oxygen that actually provides the fuel that runs your body.  Oxygen, through a process called oxidation, chemically changes food and water into energy.  It’s this oxygen fire that contracts our muscles, repairs our cells, feeds our brain and even calms our nerves.  So you can see that breathing in oxygen to a required level is the first key to your body’s health and is one of our body’s chief cleansing tool.

As long as we breathe in oxygen properly and get plenty of oxygen, there is sufficient energy and the waste matter is easily eliminated.  The problem comes when we don’t take in enough oxygen.  You see, the body can store up food and water but it can’t store oxygen.  Every minute that we live, we must continually provide our cells with stream of fresh and pure oxygen.

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Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life

Oxygen is an important factor for survival of human being.  Oxygen is required by our body for our cells to breakdown complex food molecules into simple substances and finally for the end product, i.e. energy.  During this process, energy is released which are utilized for all the cellular and other functions of the body.

Oxygen is a colorless and odorless gas and you can find that this element abundantly in the universe and makes up more than 20% of the earth’s atmosphere.  In human body, oxygen is the single most abundant element, making up 65% of the body mass.  You are breathing in oxygen nearly every single second of day and oxygen is very important for your survival.  We are going to look into the ways a human body uses oxygen.

Oxygen that we inhale is brought into the lungs via breathing where it is transported by red blood cells to the entire body to be used.  The function of oxygen in the body relates to cellular respiration and this term is used to describe the phase of the digestive process when food breaks down to supply cells with energy.  During this cellular respiration, the cells use oxygen to break down sugar to produce adenosine triphosphate or ATP.  ATP is a molecule that supplies cells with energy and the byproduct of the process is CO2 and water.

You need to be aware that health status, activity level, and the hydration are factors that affect how much oxygen a person needs.  Without adequate oxygen, health problems are the first uninvited guests to your body and we need to ensure that we get clean oxygen, adequate oxygen level in your body to help in the chemical process.  You must have seen some people lying in the hospital with extraordinary measures to get their oxygen levels up.  Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is one way to increase oxygen levels and in certain circumstances required to address a variety of health concerns.

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